The New York Times follows up on news that Liaowang published a detailed report on black jails in China: Liaowang, or Outlook, a dependably stodgy publication aimed at Communist Party bureaucrats and policy makers, ran an exposé...
Read MoreHuman Rights Watch has issued a new report about the “black jails” used to detain petitioners who travel to Beijing seeking justice. From the New York Times: The report was based on interviews with 38 former...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: At the conclusion of the Strategic Economic Dialogue on July 28, the United States and China issued a news release affirming “the importance of the rule of law to our two countries.” One day...
Read MoreThe Australian and the Los Angeles Times both report on the work of Xu Zhiyong and his recent arrest. From the L.A. Times: Xu’s law firm was one of the few in China willing to represent the parents of the nearly 300,000...
Read MoreIn the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing a year ago, there was much talk that playing host to the Games would force China to become more open and respectful of human rights, especially freedom of expression. Yet, as the New...
Read MoreXu Zhiyong, noted legal scholar and activist, has written a post on the plight of a female petitioner. In his blog entry, he details the hospital’s reception of her after discovering her status as a petitioner, and...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on the “black jails” where petitioners are held in Beijing: This month, Wang Shixiang, a 48-year-old businessman from Heilongjong Province, came to Beijing to agitate for the prosecution of...
Read MoreBy Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l: The Chinese delegation has rejected almost all the recommendations aiming at promoting democracy and human rights made by ALL the EU member states and by Argentina,...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China defends its handling of human rights under the glare of international scrutiny this week, while homegrown activists are waging their own scrappier battle over secretive detentions in the nation’s...
Read MoreThis next installment in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 concerns the state of human rights in China. See also these previous China 2008 articles: China and the Developing World, Nationalism, Internet...
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